At some point, you will need to format a USB stick or an external drive using your mac, either because you want to delete data or to make it compatible with your mac operating system. Hopefully, you ...

The overwhelming majority of USB flash drives you buy are going to come in one of two formats: FAT32 or NTFS. The first format, FAT32, is fully compatible with Mac OS X, though with some drawbacks ...

While drives are sold as plug-and-play, formatting prior to use will give you optimal performance and compatibility with your Mac. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

This article will walk you through how to format your USB key on a Mac, Windows, or Linux PC. USB keys will sometimes display less memory than is actually available, even after the drive has been ...

USB flash drives (a.k.a. “thumb” drives) may seem passé in a world where AirDrop and cloud storage solve the file-transfer problem. But they’re still quite useful for handing over files to another ...

I just picked up some external hard drives but can't decide what to format them as. Mac OS Journaled or exFat? Is there any speed difference between the two? I assume exFAT isn't much better than ...

Reader Dan Coates believes in recycling (or, at least, reformatting). He writes: I have a number of commercial flash drives with outdated information. How can I unlock them for reuse? Increasingly, ...

Many hard drives come preformatted with special utility software that largely is not needed, and may even be problematic or limiting at times. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been ...